Advances in Computational Social Science : The Fourth World Congress

Online Communities and Social Media -- Stock BBS Factor Model Using Principal Component Score -- How Consumer-Generated Advertising Works: An Empirical Agent-Based Simulation -- Understanding Citizens’ Channel Choice of Public Service Delivery: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach -- Cyclical Pattern of the Rise and Fall of an Online Community Due to a Troll -- Economic and Social Networks -- On the Indeterminacy of the Clearing Payment Vectors in Numerical Simulations on Financial Networks -- Three-State Opinion Formation Model on Adaptive Networks and Time to Consensus -- Achieving Consensus with Segregation in Multiple Social Contexts -- Behavioral Finance and Macroeconomics -- How Does Overconfidence Affect Asset Pricing, Volatility, and Volume? -- Analyzing the Validity of Passive Investment Strategies Under Financial Constraints -- Macroeconomic Forecasting with Agent-Based Models: Prediction and Simulation of the Impact of Public Policies on SMEs -- Influence of the Corporation Tax Rate on GDP in an Agent-Based Artificial Economic System -- Demographics, Health Care, Linguistics, and Sociology -- Semi-Artificial Models of Populations: Connecting Demography with Agent-Based Modelling -- An Agent-Based Approach for Patient Satisfaction and Collateral Health Effects -- Complex Evolutionary Pathways in Interacting Linguistic Communities -- Socio-Cognitive Influences on Social Stratification -- Participatory Modeling -- A Computational Study of Rule Learning in “Do-It-Yourself Lottery” with Aggregate Information -- Agent-Based Social Simulation as an Aid to Communication Between Stakeholders -- Hybrid Approach of Agent-Based and Gaming Simulations for Stakeholder Accreditation -- Methodology -- When Does Simulated Data Match Real Data? -- Towards Validating a Model of Households and Societies in East Africa -- Social Simulation Comparison in Arbitrary Problem Domains: First Steps Towards a More Principled Approach.